Single Axle travel trailers.
Wanting your opinions on single axle travel trailers. Background: Our first TT was a 16 foot Prowler, single axle. That single axle caused more than a few white knuckle moments for me, or at leas...
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fireman41 wrote:jfkmk wrote:tragusa3 wrote:jfkmk wrote:tragusa3 wrote:
I had a bearing failure on our single axle when we had it. In the middle of nowhere. Cost us 3 days of downtime before we could roll again. Not sure if a double axle would have saved us, but I pretty sure it would have. At the very least, it would have allowed us to limp to a campground.
Why would you be able to limp to a campground with a double axle trailer, but not with a single?
Is this a trick question? With one axle, you aren't mobile if a bearing fails. With a second axle, you can still roll.
Not a trick question at all. If a bearing is seized (I'm assuming that's what you're referring to), the wheel won't turn whether on a single or a double axle trailer. Would you drive with a wheel not turning? If the wheel does turn, it will turn whether on a single or a double axle trailer and you can limp along with either.
With a tandem axle trailer, you can pull the tire and wheel off of the bad hub and chain up that axle. That why you can proceed down the road on 3 wheels.
And now you're overloading the second axle and tire by, potentially, a LOT, possibly causing damage way beyond the original bearing failure.
